O Agatha Awards é um prêmio literário para autores de romances de mistério e crime que escrevam no estilo de Agatha Christie (i.e., em que cada livro a história se encerre, sem sexo ou violência, tendo detetives amadores como personagem).
Numa convenção anual realizada em Washington, D.C. o Agatha Awards é entregue pela Malice Domestic Ltd, em cinco categorias: Melhor romance, Melhor romance de estreia, Melhor conto (história curta), Melhor não-ficção e Melhor mistério infanto-juvenil. Adicionalmente, em alguns anos, é concedido o Poirot Award pelo mérito individual para escritores que tenham contribuído para o gênero de mistério, mas não é uma premiação anual.
A Malice Domestic Ltd foi criada em 1989, e tornou-se uma corporação em 1992. É dirigida por um grupo de voluntários.
Prêmios Vencedores e principais indicados em cada ano.
Melhor romance de estreia 2016 - Cynthia Kuhn, The Semester of Our Discontent Marla Cooper, Terror in Taffeta Alexia Gordon, Murder in G Major Nadine Nettmann, Decanting a Murder Renee Patrick, Design for Dying
2015 - Art Taylor, On the Road with Del and Louise Tessa Arlen, Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman Cindy Brown, Macdeath Ellen Byron, Plantation Shudders Julianne Holmes, Just Killing Time
2014 - Terrie Farley Moran, Well Read, Then Dead Annette Dashoffy, Circle of Influence Sherry Harris, Tagged for Death Susan O'Brien, Finding Sky Tracy Weber, Murder Strikes a Pose
2013 - Leslie Budewitz, Death Al Dente Shelley Costa, You Cannoli Die Once Kendel Lynn, Board Stiff Liz Mugavero, Kneading to Die LynDee Walker, Front Page Fatality
2012 – Susan M. Boyer, Lowcountry Boil Duffy Brown, Iced Chiffon Mollie Cox Bryan, A Scrapbook of Secrets Erika Chase, A Killer Read Stephanie Jaye Evans, Faithful Unto Death
2011 – Sara J. Henry, Learning to Swim Janet Bolin, Dire Threads Kaye George, Choke Rochelle Staab, Who Do, Voodoo? Kari Lee Townsend, Tempest in the Tea Leaves
2010 – Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye Laura Alden, Murder at the PTA Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook (Penguin Press), finalist Amanda Flower, Maid of Murder Sasscer Hill, Full Mortality Alan Orloff, Diamonds for the Dead
2009 – Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Delacorte Press) Lisa Bork, For Better, for Murder (Midnight Ink) Meredith Cole, Posed for Murder (St Martins Minotaur) Elizabeth J. Duncan, The Cold Light of Mourning (St. Martin's Press) Stefanie Pintoff, In the Shadow of Gotham (Minotaur Books)
2008 - G.M. Malliet, Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink) Sarah Atwell, Through a Glass, Deadly (Berkley Trade) Krista Davis, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (Penguin Group) Rosemary Harris, Pushing Up Daisies (Minotaur Books) Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death (Midnight Ink)
2007 - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Prime Time (Harlequin) Charles Finch, A Beautiful Blue Death (St. Martin's Minotaur) Beth Groundwater, A Real Basket Case (Five Star Mystery) Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave (Mira)
2006 - Sandra Parshall, The Heat of the Moon (Poisoned Pen Press) Jane Cleland, Consigned to Death (St. Martin's Minotaur) Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily, The Chef Who Died Sauteing (Hilliard & Harris) Hailey Lind, Feint of Art (Signet) Karen MacInerney, Murder on the Rocks (Midnight Ink)
2005 - Laura Durham, Better Off Wed (HarperCollins Publishers) Laura Bradford, Jury of One (Hilliard & Harris) Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (Avon Books) Maggie Sefton, Knit One, Kill Two (Berkley Publishing Group) Lisa Tillman, Blood Relations (Hilliard & Harris)
2004 - Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men (Doubleday) Judy Clemens, Till the Cows Come Home (Poisoned Pen Press) Patricia Harwin, Arson and Old Lace (Pocket Books) Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night Susan Kandel, I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason (HarperCollins) Pari Noskin Taichert, The Clovis Incident: A Mystery (University of New Mexico Press)
2003 - Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs (Soho Press Inc.) Elaine Flinn, Dealing in Murder (Avon) Erin Hart, The Haunted Ground (Scribner) S.W. Hubbard, Take the Bait (Pocket) Maddy Hunter, Alpine for You (Pocket) Joyce Kreig, Murder off Mike (St. Martin's Minotaur) Sarah Stewart Taylor, O’ Artful Death (St. Martin's Press)
2002 - Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter (St. Martin's Minotaur) Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple (Poisoned Pen Press) Roberta Isleib, Six Strokes Under (Berkley) Claire M. Johnson, Beat Until Stiff (Poisoned Pen Press) Nancy Martin, How to Murder a Millionaire (Signet) Lea Wait, Shadows at the Fair (Scribner)
2001 - Sarah Strohmeyer, Bubbles Unbound (Dutton) Tim Myer, Innkeeping with Murder (Berkley) Charles O'Brien, Mute Witness (Poisoned Pen Press) Andy Straka, A Witness Above (Signet)
2000 - Rosemary Stevens, Death on a Silver Tray (Berkley Prime Crime) Julie W. Herman, Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death (Overmountain Press) Irene Marcuse, Death of an Amiable Child (Walker & Company) Denise Swanson, Murder of a Small Town Honey (Signet)
1999 - Donna Andrews, Murder with Peacocks (Thomas Dunne Books) April Henry, Circles of Confusion (HarperTorch) Kris Neri, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen (Rainbow Books) Elena Santangelo, By Blood Possessed (St. Martin's Minotaur) Marcia Talley, Sing It to Her Bones (Dell)
1998 - Robin Hathaway, The Doctor Digs a Grave (St. Martin's Minotaur) Jerrilyn Farmer, Sympathy for the Devil (Avon) Jacqueline Fiedler, Tiger's Palette (Pocket) Judy Fitzwater, Dying to Get Published (Fawcett) Sharon Kahn, Fax Me a Bagel (Scribner)
1997 - Sujata Massey, The Salaryman's Wife (HarperCollins) Joanne Dobson, Quieter Than Sleep (Doubleday) Phyllis Richman, The Butter Did It (HarperCollins) Penny Warner, Dead Body Language (Bantam) Barbara Jaye Wilson, Death Brims Over (Avon)
1996 - Anne George, Murder on a Girl's Night Out (Avon Books) Dale Furutani, Death in Little Tokyo : A Ken Tanaka Mystery (St. Martin’s) Terris Grimes, Somebody Else's Child (Onyx Books) Teri Holbrook, The Grass Widow (Bantam Books) Margaret K. Lawrence, Hearts and Bone: A Novel of Historical Suspense (Avon Books) Lillian M. Roberts, Riding for a Fall (Gold Medal)
1995 - Jeanne M. Dams, The Body in the Transept (Walker) Teri Holbrook, A Far and Deadly Cry Jody Jaffe, Horse of a Different Killer Virginia Lanier, Death in Bloodhound Red Martha C. Lawrence, Murder in Scorpio
1994 - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Ballantine) Janet Evanovich, One for the Money (Scribner) Earlene Fowler, Fool's Puzzle Barbara Burnett Smith, Writers of the Purple Sage Polly Whitney, Until Death
1993 - Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Putnam) Jan Burke, Goodnight, Irene Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death Sharan Newman, Death Comes as Ephiphany Abigail Padgett, Child of Silence
1992 - Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam (St. Martin's Press) Deborah Adams, All the Great Pretenders Susan Wittig Albert, Thyme of Death Carol Higgins Clark, Decked Miriam Grace Monfredo, Seneca Falls Inheritance
1991 - Mary Willis Walker, Zero at the Bone (St. Martin's Press) Mary Cahill, Carpool Mary Daheim, Just Desserts Rebecca Rothenberg, The Bulrush Murders Ann Williams, Flowers for the Dead
1990 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Belfry (St. Martin's Press) Pat Burden, Screaming Bones Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody William F. Love, The Chartreuse Clue Janet L. Smith, Sea of Troubles
1989 - Jill Churchill, Grime and Punishment (Avon Books) Eleanor Boylan, Working Murder Frances Fyfield, A Question of Guilt Melanie Johnson Howe, The Mother Shadow Edith Skom, The Mark Twain Murders
1988 - Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance (Bantam Books) Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger's Drift Corinne Sawyer, The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders Susannah Stacey, Goodbye Nanny Grey Dorothy Sucher, Dead Men Don't Give Seminars
Melhor romance 2008 - Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month (Minotaur Books) Donna Andrews, Six Geese A-Slaying (Minotaur Books) Rhys Bowen, A Royal Pain (Penguin Group) Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens (Random) Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want (Minotaur Books)
2007 - Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace (St. Martin's Minotaur) Donna Andrews, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (St. Martin's Minotaur) Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness (Penguin Group) Margaret Maron, Hard Row (Grand Central Publishing) Elaine Viets, Murder with Reservations (NAL)
2006 - Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains (Random House) Earlene Fowler, The Saddlemaker's Wife L. C. Hayden, Why Casey Had to Die Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains Julia Spencer-Fleming, All Mortal Flesh Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth
2005 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Snowdrift (William Morrow) Donna Andrews, Owls Well That Ends Well (St. Martin's Minotaur) Margaret Maron, Rituals of the Season(Mysterious Press & Warner Books) Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch (University of NM Press) Heather Webber, Trouble in Spades (Avon/HarperCollins Publishers) Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies (Henry Holt Books)
2004 - Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather (Soho Press) Donna Andrews, We'll Always Have Parrots (Thomas Dunne Books) Laura Lippman, By a Spider's Thread (HarperCollins) Margaret Maron, High Country Fall (Mysterious Press) Sujata Massey, The Pearl Diver (HarperCollins)
2003 - Carolyn Hart, Letter From Home (Berkley Prime Crime) Donna Andrews, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (St. Martin’s Minotaur) Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo (William Morrow & Company) Rochelle Krich, Dream House (Ballantine Books) Margaret Maron, Last Lessons of Summer (Mysterious Press) Elaine Viets, Shop till You Drop (Signet)
2002 - Donna Andrews, You've Got Murder (Berkley Prime Crime) Rhys Bowen, Death of Riley (St. Martin's Minotaur) Rochelle Krich, Blues in the Night (Ballantine) Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Bonfire (Morrow) Elizabeth Peters, The Golden One (Morrow)
2001 - Rhys Bowen, Murphy's Law (St Martin's Minotaur) Earlene Fowler, Arkansas Traveler (Berkley) Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Ace) Rochelle Krich, Shadows of Sin (Avon) Sujata Massey, The Bride's Kimono (HarperCollins);
2000 - Margaret Maron, Storm Track (Mysterious Press) Taffy Cannon, Guns and Roses Jerrilyn Farmer, Killer Wedding Sujata Massey, The Floating Girl Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky
1999 - Earlene Fowler, Mariner's Compass (Berkley Publishing Group) Jerrilyn Farmer, Immaculate Reception (Avon) Carolyn Hart, Death on the River Walk (Avon) Laura LippmanIn Big Trouble (Avon) Sujata Massey The Flower Master (HarperCollins)
1998 - Laura Lippman, Butchers Hill (Avon Books) Jan Burke, Liar (Simon & Schuster) Earlene Fowler, Dove in the Window (Berkley) Virginia Lanier, Blind Bloodhound Justice (Harper Collins) Margaret Maron, Home Fires (Mysterious Press) Elizabeth Peters, The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Avon)
1997 - Kate Ross, The Devil In Music (Viking) Jan Burke, Hocus (Simon & Schuster) Deborah Crombie, Dreaming of the Bones (Scribner) Earlene Fowler, Goose in a Pond (Berkley) Elizabeth Peters, Seeing a Large Cat (Warner)
1996 - Margaret Maron, Up Jumps The Devil (Mysterious Press) Earlene Fowler, Kansas Troubles (a Benni Harper Mystery) (Berkley) Sharan Newman, Strong as Death (Forge)
1995 - Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him (Ballantine) Joan Hess, Miracles in Maggody Sharan Newman, The Wandering Arm Nancy Pickard, Twilight Walter Satterthwait, Escapade
1994 - Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills (Scribner) Carolyn G. Hart, Scandal in Fair Haven Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice Rochelle Majer Krich, Angel of Death Elizabeth Peters, Night Train to Memphis
1993 - Carolyn Hart, Dead Man's Island (Bantam) Aaron Elkins, Old Scores Joan Hess, O Little Town of Maggody Rochele Majer Krich, Fair Game Margaret Maron, Southern Discomfort Kathy Hogan Trocheck, To Live and Die in Dixie
1992 - Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press) Carolyn G. Hart, Southern Ghost